Logging device.



W. M. SHAW. LOGGING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.30,1904.

PATENTED JAN. 22, 1907.

q vbhmaooco/ Greenville, State of Maine,

"to each log,

' carryin by preference,

around a log.

; UNITE ILLIAM M. SHAW, OF

I LOGGING mistakes.

' Application filed Pacember 30,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM-M. SHAW, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of have invented a new and useful Improvement Applicable to Logging or other Purposes, of which the followingis a specification.

In logging by power, particularly in small timber, it is customary to secure a number of logs to' a single skidding, pulling, or hauling line. A separate chain or rope is made fast and these various chains are strung or otherwise secured to the skiddingline at various points alon its length. As soon as'vthe line is haule in the various chains bunch toward the rear end of the line, so that considerable difiiculty is oftenexperienced in detaching the. logs at the point of delivery.

The invention which is the subject of the present application facilitates this character of logging and will also probably be found useful for other purposes.

In theaccompanying drawi s, Figure 1 is a side view of a suspended s ding 'ap aratus employing my invention. Fig'. 2 s ows a portion of the chain and the'eyebolt con-' nected therewith in combination with theeye-socket. Fig. -3 shows the eyebolt detached from the socket, and Fig; 4 shows the socket detached from the eyebolt {in side Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of thesocke't. 1 is thechain or ronefor connecting with the log. f

2 is the body of the bolt connected with the chain by the eye 3 and havin the head 4; 5 is a socket having a longitu inalhole to fit the body 2 of the bolt and'slotted at 6 on one side, so as. to ermit the bolt-to be in serted and removed laterally. From the top of the socket 5 extendsthe eye 6", referably at its top the friction ro ler 7. A' series 0 these sockets will bestrung upon the skidding or hauling rope 8, as shown in Fig; 1; The end of the skidding or hauling rope'will carry a tongs 9 or other suitable means for preventing the sockets from running off of theend.

Each of the chains 1 carries upon its end, a ring 10, though a hook will answer and is sometimes used for securing itself after passing the end'of the chem to Specification of Letters Patent.

:this'position the body b pivoting upon its gitudinal section of Fig. 6 view. Fig. 5 shows aperspecti ve view of the las in the act of having \socket detached from the eyebolt.

from its'sdcket;

upon the ground in that are necessary STATES PATENT OFFICE. v

GREENVILLE, MAINE.

DEVlCEi i I Patented Jan. 22, 1907. 1904. Serial No. 239.022;

In-the drawings, 11 is the ordinary skidding-carriage; 12, the supporting-cable.

13 is the carriage traction-line extending from the head-support to the tail-support and back again to the carriage, where its end is made'fast at 14.

The skidding or hauling line 8 extends from the head-support over the carriage sheave 15. a

It will be observed'by Fig. 6 that the bore of socket is made to contain a constricted portion 2*, corresponding in diameter with but not solongas the body of the bolt 2, and an enlarged or rabbeted portion 4, correspending in diameter with the head of the bolt. Thus when the bolt is inserted laterallythe head of the bolt is within the eye 6*; 'butas soon as-it has reached a concentric position Within the socket it drops down, so that its head occupies the rabbet 4, in which positionfit is secure from any accidental displacement.-

As an addition to the above the socket may be provided with a stop 16 in its eye, as shown in Fig. 6, so that in order to insert the head of the bolt it is necessary that it should be done with the bodyof the bolt standing laterally, and after the head is inserted in of the bolt is inserted e'ad. Thus in the lonthe bolt isshown head inserted in its full lines and is in dotted lines shown during the movement of pivoting upon its head, whereby its bod or shank is swung laterally to the axis of t 0," socket. When thus constructed, the stop/16 willeffectually revent any accidental disengagement of t e bolt The preferable way to operate this device is to carry the end of the hauling-line 8 off i at a distance'and make the tongs or chain on its end fast. to a leg, then to slack the line and carry difierentparts of its bod. around to the. vicinity of, different logs, so t at it lies a serpentine course. This line already has upon it a plurality of the sockets, each one of which preferably makes anv antifriction running connection with the line, so that enough'sockets will be already IO on the,line to furnish all of the connections for the various logs that it is desired to haul. Chains have already been applied to each of the logs, and the eyebolts on the ends of these chains are re- II spectively placed in the several .sockets. Then by hauling in on the line the various sockets will run toward the end of the -line,.

where they are accumulated against the tongs or chain whereby the end log is secured. After the bunch of logs has been hauled in to the. desired point each log and its chain may be readily detached from the line by slipping its eyebolt laterally from its socket, leaving the socket still upon the line to bereturned for another load of logs.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a logging apparatus, the combination of an elevated support, a block movable on said support and carrying a sheave, a cable passing over the said sheave and a chainoLder or connecting device loosely receiving said cable. W

2. In a logging apparatus, in combination, a hauling-line, a series of eyes in running connection therewith each carrying a socket and a series of log chains or ropes each provided with-a device adapted to engage said socket. v

3. In a logging apparatus, in combination, a hauling-line, a series of eyes in running connection therewith each provided with a socket having a lateral opening and a series of log ropes or chains provided with devices adapted to engage-said sockets by being laced therein laterally.

4. a-logging apparatus in combination, a hauling-line, a socket having a head through which the hauling-line passes transversely, suchfsocket containing a lateral ,entrance-opening and a log line or rope carryinga device adapted to enter said socket laterally.

5. In a logging apparatus, in combination, the hauling-line, a socket forming a run ning engagement therewith, a deviceadapted to engage a log and means whereby said device may be engaged with said socket.

6. In alogging apparatus, in combination, the hauling-line, a socket movably-connected therewith, a device for engaginga log and means whereby said device may be detachably secured to said socket.

7. Ina logging apparatus, in combinabination with an eye 6 provided withan antifriction-roller 7. p

10. The body 5 containing the longitudinal constricted socket-opemng 2 andthe rabbeted socket-opening 4 and a lateral entrance to the same, in combination with means whereby said socket may besecured.

11. The body 5, containing the constricted socket 2, the rabbeted socket-opening 4, the stop'l6 and a lateral entrance to said socketopening, in combination with means whereby said socket may be secured.

12. In a logging apparatus, in combination a hauling-line, a log-engaging device, and a running connection between the haul-v ing-line and the log-engaging device.

13. In a logging apparatus, in combination a hauling-line, a log-engaging device, and a separable coupling having one member in running engagement with the hauling-line, and asecond member permanently secured to the log-en aging device. M

14. In a ogging apparatus incombination the hauling-line, a log-engaging device, and a coupling having one member provided with a roller adapted to ride on said line, and a second member secured to the log-engaging device and adapted to be coupled with the first-mentioned member.

In testimony whereof 'I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two. subscribing witnesses. i WILLIAM M-v SHAW.

Witnesses:

SPENCER MILLER, J. H. DICKINSON. 

